Re: CLASSOID patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CLASSOID patch
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Msg-id 11936.961990572@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: CLASSOID patch  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I'm wondering what other people think about the naming. Firstly, it's my
> feeling that TABLEOID would be more in line with the general conventions.

No strong feeling either way.  The old-line Postgres naming conventions
would suggest CLASSOID or RELATIONOID, but I sure wouldn't propose
RELATIONOID.

> Secondly, maybe we ought to make the name less susceptible to collision by
> choosing a something like _CLASSOID (or whatever).

No, I don't like that.  If we're going to do this at all then the name
ought to be consistent with the names of existing system attributes,
and those have no underscore decoration.

            regards, tom lane

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